in the stories that shaped the week u.s. president donald trump says he canceled an air strike on iran because he doesn't want to kill anybody unless it's absolutely necessary. i don't want to go on the radio. i don't want to kill him if there's a body. let's accept. plus that as well as opposition party is accused of spending humanitarian aid on lavish hotels and drugs and prostitutes. and for hours that's how long president with questions from the public has annual q. and a sessions covered key domestic and world issues.

this is the weekly here on our to international welcome to our round up of the headlines that shape the past week u.s. president all trump called off a strike on iran just 10 minutes before it was due to be launched he since said he's neither it warmonger nor dov but a man with common sense and he doesn't want to kill anybody unless it's absolutely necessary. one thing i want to know and i want to know it accurately is accurately told how many people will die i don't want to kill 150 arabians i understand that i have friends that are already many friends i don't want to kill a 100 this year betty ford everybody. let's adapt really does. the cancel attack was meant to be in retaliation for tehran's downing of a u.s. military drone over the gulf region strait of hormuz iran said it was ready to add

to its collection of down drones a posh inten violates its airspace. has more. in terms of words he seems to have indicated it could have been a human error he pointed out that it could have been a general or some other official who made the mistake of ordering for the drone to be shot down i find it hard to believe it was intentional if you want to know the truth i think that it could have been somebody who was loose and stupid our iran is said that the drone did indeed enter their airspace and violate their territory and that they intend to go to the united nations in order to prove this they say that it was in the southern part of their country that this drone entered their airspace and that they shot it down for violating their airspace at this point we've got the iranian foreign minister condemning the united states for what he calls economic terrorism the us wages economic terrorism on iran has conducted covert action against those and now encroaches on our territory we don't seek war but was jealous lead to fend off sky land and waters will take this new aggression to the u.n.

and show you that the u.s. is lying about international waters now the u.n. secretary general antonio good spirits is calling on all parties to remain calm and exercise restraint i strongly hope that. the situation will be contained because as i said and i repeat the world does not really need any measure confrontation with the russian president vladimir putin recently said that an attack on iran would be potentially disastrous which i'd like to say straight away that a military conflict between the u.s. and iran would be a disaster at least for the region it would be an outburst of violence with terrible consequences it's very hard to predict what would happen in the case of military force being used now many observers have noted that it seems that the white house is powerless in toward iran has been rather consistent this is how the united states has approached iran during the trumpet ministration threat their neighbors or spread instability or terror everywhere we go in the middle east it's

a rare. major destabilize. influence in the middle east spread death destruction and we've been trying to do is to get to be employed globalization. now the united states recently sent a 1000 new troops to the middle east region in response to a supposed threat from the islamic republic of iran now on june 13th when 2 oil tankers were attacked the united states blamed iran for the incident however iranian officials rejected those accusations outright and said that it was actually their ships that were on scene to rescue the sailors who had been hurt and take them for medical assistance so at this point all eyes are on the middle east region all eyes are on the u.n. where international bodies will be hearing and taking up this issue and all eyes are on washington as a response from the united states could be very possible up and artsy new york as the blame game around washington is tightening the economic screws on terror on

this new sanctions to hit the islamic republic on monday came up asked people in new york if they would support a war against iran. can you imagine a situation where it would be you would be in support of a war with iran. it was the last one was another war and then another war then another you know one thing is another way. to solve problems and go about things open assassinations and bombing other people and we knew about it you could prove it i think we need real proof that some type of activity is actually happening where people are losing life losing land where some type of injustice is happening at the hands of iran but at this point i don't really know that that's necessarily a terrorist attack on you know innocent people you know something like 911 happens of course the response is this is necessary and immediate. is war the answer to that maybe not maybe but i still think personally we should find a different solution besides war we've been through many wars

a lot of people have died and doesn't seem to make. a less iran is having violence against the horrors i think the country maybe can resolve his own issues with other countries' interference now i can say is i hope nobody gets hurt i hope for world peace senior iranian national security official says while terror on has never attacked anyone it's ready to retaliate. all have rules. you can find out trump statements always different for example statements from yesterday and today he also contradicts white house officials such political matter is devoid of logic and common sense we do not take seriously his threats and contradictory statements but in the end it must be noted that the islamic republic of iran is not iraq or afghanistan we are a big state and have strong popular support both during the present but also past hardships the islamic republic has been standing firm and never attacked anyone and

will not do that but if we are attacked the aggressor will regret it at the same time we strive for peace and security in our region the policy of sanctions and the economic war launched by trump against the iranian people will not yield any results this is a hostile policy that will be defeated as a result. members of the venezuelan opposition have been implicated in a corruption scandal think documents appear to reveal that officials from one white house movement have been embezzling aid funds for personal use the money was intended for soldiers who defected and fled to neighboring colombia. humanitarian aid it is more a humanitarian robbery all the money from the famous humanitarian aid fund was stolen of take note washington not only are the opposition liars but they are thieves too who stole thousands of dollars from each other. thousands of dollars

from an aid concert on the colombian border were apparently spent on hotels prostitutes and luxury goods by 2 members of the white house party they were in charge of overseeing the humanitarian aid. has more. sex drugs and rock'n'roll aren't something you'd associate with a humanitarian aid concert wrongly it seems colombian authorities themselves a shocked and barris that what they've uncovered and to think it all began so innocently we need to try to help those who are not getting medical help help those who are hungry and today hopefully on the back of this concert we can start maybe getting supplies into them to sway those people who are not suffering so much back then the freshly self-proclaimed president of venezuela called in the military to

defect join him and top of the corrupt regime. to the armed forces welcome to the right side of history welcome to the soldiers who are today following the constitution welcome hundreds of soldiers did defect some with families some of the small children they scared to colombia they were put in hotels and by mid march it were living in the streets we are desperate we do not want to stay in colombia we want to return to venezuela but not in the current living conditions we do not know. how could this happen out of the 7 hotels that the soldiers were staying in all but 2 were being paid for by the un and the colombian government to hotels is all who and why do those representatives had to pay for except they didn't according to the journalists who broke this story why and why do

all of this a month ago. we couldn't allow for any bad managing of money to overshadow what has been a big effort on the part of all venezuelans that's why as soon as we had the information about the ongoing investigation we decided to send it straight to every impartial thorazine. the people who did this bear in mind were appointed by why do personally and he only chose to speak with the story already public knowledge saying transparent investigation is needed also amazingly managing to somehow imply that the venezuelan government does involve culpable complicit and that guy duo doesn't cover up corruption which he kept covered up for at least a month obviously the actual venezuelan government has questions. it's a huge drop in corruption poor to divert money that we could use both sick children

instead of being spent on food or medicine that's been used to pay for alcohol prostitutes expensive shopping trips and luxury hotels as do those allies why is his party which promises to cleanse venezuela of corruption and exercise the demons of the old regime why are these people blowing tens of thousands of dollars in aid money on prostitutes drugs and booze then live a concert that richard branson has led along with others in the us pro attempt of february 22nd 23rd was a complete failure for plan why those forces inside of venezuela and in colombia have been using the money to enrich themselves for luxury stays in a $5.00 star hotel and therefore they're really showing what they're about it's about power for personal enrichment the corruption scandal is just one small part

of what the u.s. is engaging in in this enormous assault a genocidal assault against the people of it well it's hundreds of millions it's chance of billions of dollars that the u.s. is stealing in the name of one way though stealing money from the venezuelan people . the president of georgia is urging russians to continue visiting her country insisting it's safe for tourists and foreign journalists that's after moscow temporarily banned direct flights to and from georgia russia's foreign ministry alleges that georgia's radical opposition is exploiting the visit of a russian delegation to mount protests $240.00 people have been injured in the demonstrations including 80 police officers and a producer at our video agency. who was.

just vocal critic of the situation got very heated there was rest spikes and then the crowd good out for another storm stone sticks in both walls with thrown from the side of the crowd special forces fired rubber bullets and deployed to gas. protests erupted after russian and pace are discovered a sat in the chair of the georgian parliament speaker this happened during the opening session of a multilateral parliamentary assembly and to promote orthodox christianity the georgian opposition prevented people from taking to the podium afterwards we talked to governor locke who told us radicals are attempting to disrupt already complicated russian georgian relations. well you only see as a president of the assembly i have the right to take this seat in any country where

the assembly session is held in this case the place was offered by the georgian side the session was invaded by radicals who shouted threats to our lives we tried to continue but more radical activists showed up with cameras and posters with anti russian and insulting slogans we decided to finish the session in the hotel nearby radicals tried to storm the hotel they attacked members of parliament including me when we tried to leave i believe all of this is the races styria in the wake of protests to take power. earlier the georgian president blamed the russian official for what happened saying the protests benefit nobody but the kremlin she cut short a visit to belarus to return home to the anti-government demonstrations and the kremlin responded to the accusations and worst of all but provocation that's how moscow described the 2 days of large scale rallies in the georgian capital protesters are now demanding that the government resign another rally is expected on sunday we spoke to the former acting president of georgia you know burjanadze

she believes the government has been fomenting anti russian sentiment. the russian border relations are really very difficult and sensitive for you and your society and most of the population now receive the same message the russian m.p. in the chair of joy gen speaker is that something which is just creating a problem what stability of the country or something which is there just touching independence and serenity of that country and it was easy to predict from the side of the government but excellently and deliverable how i'm competent is the government and it's absolutely sure clear for me that the government did nothing for you improvement of crushing georgian relations during the last few years so there was no any kind of positive in this the direction of political parties holding their themselves as

a pro western and that right now 2 years of these. are hard to say sincere probably not as a people in their political goals and to just strengthen these 2 russian really exists in a serious part of the georgian population to only one of her girl could be blamed for the east and shouldn't be absent and be responsible for this it is a government and stupidity of this government. coming up the u.k. his arms sales to saudi arabia will come under review after an appeals court sides with peace campaigners against the government that started more in a few moments. some time shows were like a honeypot. everyone believe that it was all on stable and on the reliable russia

but they saw a. that one was great over there russian businessmen wanted to do business in the west because they feared some could take everything away from them in russia which now is the opposite dave business is outside of russia was snatched less is frozen the whole blog now the student whine about. my objection to breaks it is not that i like to hear you but it without the mollifying influence of the e.u. the brits are going to be exposed face on head on to people like boris johnson and jacob riis mog who are who are the certifiably insane. join me every thursday on the elec simon chill and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you than.

welcome back british arms sales to saudi arabia could be on the line after peace campaigners won a legal challenge over the potential use of the weapons in yemen they claim that lucrative contracts breach international law and contribute to what the u.n. calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis british appeal court judges are now demanding a review here's what the opponents of the arms sales to the kingdom had to say right after the verdict. this goes to the very top of the conservative party we now need a judicial review in the whole zisa system has been shown to be totally broke we now need a public inquiry on this matter the government should not waste time in appealing this judgment the government should fix our system this has been a brutal condemnation of u.k. foreign policy visit and a very strong judgment against it we want to see action from the government the court has done its job it's time for the government to do its job the decisions

that took in relation to existing licenses and the decisions they took to continue to grow on licenses those decisions are a little full and they have to go back and reconsider the court's decision might affect the u.k.'s largest defense contractor be 80 systems as riyadh represents a significant part of the group's business since the saudi led bombardment began back in 2015 the u.k. has license 4700000000 pounds worth of weapons britain is the 2nd biggest exporter of arms to the saudis and it's the u.k.'s largest military export contract meanwhile with no end in sight to the conflict yemen is on the brink of collapse and warning you may find some of the following images disturbing.

since the beginning of the operation the saudi government has been insisting it's fighting the who the rebels only without targeting civilians enrol in the face of strong criticism at home conservative party ministers have been at pains to stress that it's not the u.k. which chooses the targets in yemen a former british politician we spoke to says a general election could be a game changer. at a time when most of british attention is focused inevitably on bragg's it it's really important that we do look at 2 the issues such as sales and in particular in this special case because so many people are losing their lives in yemen and really it's a difficult situation that has to be resolved and it's significant that all of the opposition parties not trust the labor party but also the liberal democrats and the

scottish nationalists and other smaller parties have agreed really that this is not something that britain ought to be supporting it's really only the conservatives who have taken this line of strong support for sales to saudi arabia and so they're probably will need to be a general election for that to change and that is more likely to succeed perhaps than the legal challenge. the russian presence annual q. and a session received more than 2000000 questions from the public and i put in spend some 4 hours on thursday answering more than 80 questions on various subjects including international issues you can watch the session in for online but here are some of the key points. it's better if the american side shows interest we are always ready for dialogue but we see what is happening in us domestic politics the president will always look back on the race he's in right now some in

the american establishment are speculating about our country's relationship with trying to find problems and telling lies if you. will be sure we're going to use if we love the mirror zelinsky went to paris and said he would not talk to the separatists representatives of these unrecognised republics how will they resolve this issue but a modern history doesn't provide a single example of a conflict which was resolved without direct dialogue between the sides we need political will from kiev. and we did everything we've seen presented as evidence that russia is responsible for everything doesn't suit us we think it is insufficient evidence it doesn't say anything we've presented our version of events but unfortunately no one wants to hear it until there is a proper dialogue here we won't find any answers to the questions about the plane crash and the deaths of the people on board which remain open it this is

a tragedy and we mourn its victims such tragedies are unacceptable. and now to some world news in brief ethiopia's government says it has successfully prevented a coup after gunfights north a number of senior officials were killed the country's president appeared on t.v. in combat dressed to make the announcement it's time to seize power by force was allegedly led by hiring general original had and his advisors were shot dead in their office all the army's chief of staff was reportedly killed and his house. france's yellow vests were back in action on saturday hitting the streets in cities across the country and paris demonstrators blocked public transport around the city there were clashes with. police and the number of arrests were made it was the 32nd consecutive saturday on which the el of us have marsh this time around some 12000 of them nationwide the movement started in response to the french government's plan to raise fuel taxes back in october of last year and the sense expanded into

a protest against other unpopular government policies. that's a recap of just some of the stories that helped shape the world these last 7 days thanks for tuning in. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy to foundation let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic to follow the only posts really i'm going to resist i don't see how's that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. it's hard to take some from somebody if you know have some to replace i'm. going to

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value both in russia it's all about personal benefit and the chip in this of the ride other russians really so much more self some. and the rest of the europeans yeah i mean it's an interesting question i think it's more like an evolution of the communication with the community i don't think it's that polarized you know your dog on your body environment we all need talk about it going to benefit if you do good all the the deicing and communication we do in france and germany does very much around the saving money it's always the same it's always about saving money making friends in the social benefits and meeting people because we connect people that would not have met overwise in the environment what we found is that the 1st 3 years tend to be economy and social and then and especially you're right now in europe there is a lot more awareness around the environment especially for the young generation i

think it's less true. right now in russia i think it's just a matter of time so i think it's more like a timing of communication than anything but overall again the way you portray it is very polarized it's just a continuum of belief around or putting i think there is much more emphasis on this individual freedom. conference car brings you here in russia and i wonder if you sometimes. by choosing this specific marketing campaign for this market are discouraging the behavior that you would want to see in the future because i know that in france for example you are branching out into bass services as well but here in russia there is a lot of still a lot of. individual car ownership and some would say that you're also undercutting the bus services in many of the regions yeah it's more complex and. you the best.

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